MLB Baseball Tainted by Steroids?

As many of you may know in the past week Alex Rodriguez one of the highest paid professional baseball players admitted to using steroids. ARod tested positive for Primobolan and Testosterone in 2003, both banned substances by the MLB. ARod testing positive for steroids has been all over the news for the past week. He is just one of a long list of names being caught for steroids and banned substances in the MLB. Roger Clemens, Jason Giambi, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa and Jose Conseco are just few of other big names caught for doping. Here is the latest article on ARod about him admitting to using steroids from ESPN.com written by Jayson Stark:

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/spring2009/columns/story?columnist=stark_jayson&id=3914265

As more and more high profile players are being caught for steroids many question whether or not it is going to taint the game. Baseball has changed from players playing with true talent to alot of players resorting to steroids to help "better" their performance. Although only a bunch of athletes have been caught it just shows that baseball is not the same game and that athletes will do whatever they can to get ahead of there opponents to win and make money. Alot of people have there own opinion on this subject matter but I firmly believe it hurts baseball. Now fans of the game don't know who is clean or who is not clean, ultimately hurting those who are clean and have performed to the best of there ability on a daily basis. Professional players are also romodels for the youth of our country. Seeing your favorite player take steroids only makes them want to take steroids to get ahead in the game and be like there favorite player. Overall, steroids have made its mark on professional baseball and could cause huge problems for the the future of the MLB and the game itself.